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gamier anti “Holy Bible, —Book Divine, Precious treasure, thou art mine.” H. C. HOftNADY, Editor. J. M. WOOD, ) J. S. BAKER, V Associate Editor*. D. P. EVERETT, J ATLANTA, GKEOROIA: Saturday, July 26, 1868. Increase in Price of the Banner. Owing to the immense increase in every thing connected with the newspaper busi ness, it has become absolutely neeessary to advance the price of The Banner to three dollars per annum, instead of two as here, tofore. Our patrons will see the propriety of this wher. informed that the price of paper is more than double that of former rates, and that of printing and mailing has also advanced. We can not publish the paper for less than the amount stated without loss to our selves, and we call upon our patrons to pay the increase of price in order that we may keep The Banner going. Those who have already paid will receive the paper according to the old rates until their pres, ent subscriptions shall expiry Editorial Correspondence. RICHMOND, Jui.T 15, 1803. Dear Banner: To the uninitiated this city seems more like the capital of the United States than that of the Southern Confederacy. Every where one meets with articles of property bearing the significant letters U. S. Horses, mules, wagons, can non, can tees, knapsacks, haversacks, etc., are found in abundance bearing this unmis takable stamp, and affording conclusive proof of the facility with which the ‘Young Napoleon* performed his wonderful straget io movement. The streets are filled day and night with soldiers, cavalry and infant ry, passing to and fro with groups of Fed eral prisoners on their way to the several tobacco factories which have been prepared for their special accommodation, ft seem ed a little hard to me, at first, that our gov ernment should be so liberal in providing room for these visitors from the other side, while the prospect before me was not very promising for lodging, die. 1 succeeded, however, in getting a room formerly occu. pied by the Rev. W.M. Crumley, chaplain of the Georgia hospitals, who is absent on sick furlough. This arrangement was made by Mr. Selkirk, the business agent of the Georgia Hospital Association. Here 1 re ceived a great many evidences of kindness and sympathy from Drs. O’Keefe, Ellison, Carleton and others, while engaged in vis iting the sick and wounded of our own State, confined in the hospitals. Of the wounded there area great many, injured in almost every conceivable way. The-surgeons in these hospitals, under the efficient direction of Or. Campbell, of Au gusta, are unremitting in their attentions to our suffering soldiers, and their relatives may. rest assured that every thing is being done which can possibly contribute to their comfort as well as to their speedy recovery. But in spite of all their exertions and skill, many of the wounded are dying, and their bodies will be left to moulder in the soil which they have so gallantly defended. The brilliancy of our victory over the enemy can be fully understood only w hen the great difficulties to be overcome are adequately known. Suffice it to say, we have defeated one of the strongest and best appointed armies which ever took the field, entrenched behind redoubts and breast works which to a civilian seem impregnable. 'The enemy in his retreat either lost or de stroyed the most of his outfit—well satisfied in being able to get off the remains of his broken and discomfited army to a plaee of safety' under the friendly protection of his gunboats, where he now lies awaiting re inforcements and supplies. Should he again take it into his head to go to Richmond, it is presumed he will be defeated, as every soldier in our army is fully confident of our ability to defend the city. But we shall see what we shall see. 11. C. 11. llaiitier Tor the Soldier* The religious paper furnishes a cheap and available means of reaching them ; and our brethren and sisters should come to the rescue before it is too late. What say our rea-U*ra ? Shall the sick and woundtg soldiers have The Banner f BANNER AND BAPTIST. State Evangelist. Brother Jesse B. Campbell has been la boring as State Evangelist, and recently as Colporteur among our soldiers on the coast; The committee regret that the income of the Permanent Mission Fund is so small as, to allow no appropriation this year. We can only urge that our brethren will make contributions to the support < t brother Campbell, and continue him in this import ant field of missionary labor. —[■AxOnc/ from Report of Executive Committee, Geor gia Baptist Convention. 1? MEND. The. above extract has been sent us by a friend of voluntary missions, thusUmely calling the attention of brethren to the im portant work in which brother Campbell is engaged. His labors for our soldiers have been arduous, and no doubt very profitable to them. His gifts and capacities, com. bined with his ardent patriotism, peculiarly jit him for ' this very work. But he nor any other man, with small means, can de vote his time and incur the expense of such a work at his own charges. Brethren, he ought to be fully and liberally sustained.— 5 * The associations will soon meet, and Chris tians will be doing a good work to bear these suggestions iri mind and provide lib. erally for his support. In the mean time } individual Christians w ho wish promptly to do their part can send to him at Griffin, Ga.> or to the Banner for him. Friend of the Soldier! listen to this appeal. • For the Index. GRIFFIN, Julv 2,1862. At a called conference this day the Bap tist Church in this city passed the follow ing preamble and resolutions : Whereas, Elder A. C. Dayton has pub lished in the Christian Index an appoint ment to preach in this city on next Sabbath, the 7th instant. And, whereas, he thus compels us to decide whether we will or will not allow him to occupy our pulpit. — Therefore, Resolved, Ist, That while we will allow Elder Dayton to occupy our pulpit, it shall not be regarded as taking any position up on, or even as the expression of an opinion in regard to the late difficulties of Elder J. R. Graves and party, and the First Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn. Resolved, 2d, That* a copy of this pre amble and resolutions be given Eld. Dayton on his arrival in this city, and that the same be sent to the Christian Index for publica tion. A. Vanßoose, Moderator. S. Warner, Clerk pro tem. We have clipped the above from the Christian Index of 22J instant. This is rather a singular document, and as brother Dayton has 6ome character for modesty it may not be amiss to say that he probably did not think of compelling the goo . breth ren at Griffin to say whether he should ocoupy their pulpit.' They could have put him in their College building, as was done at LaGrange—or in the Court-Home, as was done at Albany', where a different state of things appears to exist to that which pre vailed in the life time of the honored dead. Our brethren at Griffin appear more sent pulous than the members of the late Geor gia Baptist Convention. Upon motion of one of the oldest and best members' of that body (the lion. Thomas Stocks), Elder Dayton was received as a minister of the Gospel and invited to a seat in the conven tion, and he returned over the railroad on a certificate, of membership) of the body, signed by the President—Dr. P. 11. Mell. A few other things in other quarters we may notice, as matters of curiosity, at some future time, unless we find that the viper will die without additional blows. The good Lord, we trust, ‘ will bring it about.’ W. Army Chaplain* These devoted workers for their country and their Saviour, find that religious read ing for the soldiers helps them very much in their labors of love.. Hence, they call for tracts, Testaments, and religious papers. These brethren say that the soldiers are very fond of religious papers, and many of them have written and asked for The Banner to be sent to them weekly for distribution. But while brother H. would gladly furnish large numbers to his country's defenders, he can not do so unless the means are fur nished. Will not these Chaplains take up contributions for this object? and will not brethren, pastors and others, at home do the same, and forward the amount to bro ther 11, I Each number of The Banner will be worth more to the soldier than an ordinary tract. Although l feel that 1 have done more than m v share fur The Banner, 1 will follow the advice given to others—and hereby contribute #5 for this object. J. M. Wood. — •# City Subscriber*. We have been sending a carrier with The Banner to our city subscribers, but we can not continue to do so after the pres ent number. They must send for them to our office, or else get them from the Post office. The trouble and expense of carrying are too great, entailing positive loss on us for every paper so sent. Brother Wellborn’s Proposition. Brother M. J. Wellborn has sent four dollars and twenty-five cents for The Ban ner, being confident that the paper can not bg,published at 12 per annum without great lees to the proprietor.. In this he is right; aud unless our friends generally come up to our support promptly, they will soon have no ‘ Banner.’ “The editors have already made g-reat sac rifices in order to sustain the paper, but there must be a limit to these; and we now call upon every friend of the paper to imi Tate the worthy example of brother Well born, in sending up contributions to keep it afloat. Let every subscriber, who is able to do so, send six dollars and pay for two years, and there will be no failure in the paper. Correspondence of The Banner. NEAR VICKSBURG, July 9,1862. Brother Wood: I promised, when I parted with you in Atlanta several weeks ago, that I would occasionally write you and keep you posted as to my whereabouts and whatabouts. — I have had so little to communicate of in terest that I have put off writing from w'eek to week until this time, and 1 now' w T rite with very little on hand. I returned to camp at Corinth, and found the Army preparing to fall back. The sick that were able to be removed were being sent to the interior hospitals, and the extra baggage to Okalona. Determining to give m v attention to the care of the sick and to preaching, when not engaged upon the bat tle field, 1 looked around for a life to save.’ Before sundown I found a Surgeon of the Bossier Cavalry, La., low with camp dys entery and typhoid fever supervening, and learned from the surgeon attending that his ease was hopeless unless he could be removed into a private family and receive especial attention. I immediately procured the charge of him from the proper authori ties and conveyed him to the residence of my father-in-law, Dr. George Snider, who lives in Magnolia, Miss , who enjoys an en viable reputation asa physician ofeminence. There 1 nursed him fur fifteen days, when heTted—the fatal shaft had been sent too deep to be reached by medical skill.— After a visit in the bosom of my family, from which I had been separated since the first of last March, 1 supplied myself with ‘lint and bandages ’ and some simple medi cos. 1 embarked for Vicksburg where a iarni engagement wiis daily expected, as it was reported daily" that the enemy was landing heavy forces both below' and above the city to reduce the fortifications by a double Hank movement. I have been here now over one week, and the prospect for a land or naval engagement is lessening daily. Tht> enemy amuse themselves, and perhaps seek to divert our attention from what they are doing, by bombarding our batteries, but without effect. They have driven the citizens out of the city, save some few mer chants, and have riddled the buildings and ploughed up the streets with their shot and shell, but have not killed more than five or six persons and wounded twice as many ; only two of the killed were soldiers, one a { a dy —Mrs. Grabble They have found out that we have a very large force massed here to meet them when they touch the soil, and have doubtless given up the idea of taking Jackson via Vicksburg. And they have been sadly disappointed in their | naval project. They undertook to pass a ; portion of their gunboats by the forts to make a conjunction with the fleet above, and to test the effect of our guns upon their ‘steel-elads.’ They learned a lesson that made its impression uporr them, and it should upon our rulers. Under full headof steam, with every gun belching shot and shell like so many volcanoes, enveloping boats and men in a cloud of smoke and fire, they pushed by, while our batteries hurled their heavy iron dowrn upon them. One of the boats was their magnificent 4 Brook lyn’ ship of war; it succeeded in passing the point above the city, when it staggered and went down n full thirty feet of water —ao utter loss ; her masts stitf stick out of the water. Two or three other boats were riddled and may prove a loss. This shows what might have been done by the forts and those batteries below New Or leans, ha 1 they been properly manned, gunned and worked— New Orleans could not have been taken by Lincoln’s fleet combined. The enemy have evidently de spaired of reducing Vicksburg , and given it up! You ask, What are they doing?— I can tell you. The river comes into Vicksburg making a V, touching Vicksburg by ita base point. The Yankees are engaged cutting anew channel for the river across the opening of the U, expecting to leave Vicksburg by this means some six miles inland, high and dry ! They have impressed some fifteen thousand negroes, from the plantations on the river, to complete this work. If they succeed, the Y ankee nation will raise a great laugh and fondly dream that the river is theirs from head to mouth. ‘ Will they succeed V Those who are acquainted with the river say no, for the river is falling faster than they can dig, and will continue to fall faster for three or six months to come—and so they will have the delightful exercise for their reward ! But suppose they do suc ceed, the river is by no means in their pos session. We are—and you will rejoice to hear it—putting up suudry heavy batteries below, that will prove as formidable as those here. The news to-day is that the mortar boats have left for d.own stream.—. Doubtless they have got wind of what we are about, and have gone down to shell us away, if possible. Mark the prophecy : The-Yankee transports will never enjoy the Mississippi River; nor will the fond hopes of the invaders, to open up.the trade of the River and New Orleans with the North- West— never. The most vigorous movements are now being put forth to defend every foot of soil from New Orleans to Memphis on both sides of the river. I expect to be able to inform you of a brilliant affair in a short time, occurring out west on this side of the river. Our information to-day is, that Curtis in Arkansas is in quite as bad or worse a ‘ fix ’ as his friend McClellan is on the Peninsula. Have we not much to be thankful for, brother Wood ? The light of a better day seems to be breaking in the East and shining even unto the West.— Beauregard’s retreat was a masterly affair, and utterly disconcerted Ilalleck. Thursday morning. —The house in which I write (Dr. Philips’) shakes under the heavy firing of our batteries, which has re opened biiskly this morning. Cause un known. It is evidently from our 10 inch guns, as the reverberations aie deeper and longer, and the concussion more severe. But my main object in writing you is, to see if through you 1 could be supplied with Tracts for our soldiers in the camps and in the field, i suppose we have over 100,000 men in tent and hospital in the West, and yet nothing adequately has been done, or is now doing, known to me, to supply them even with tracts. 1 have sent brother H. $lO for a supply to distribute as Igo from camp to camp. 1 would send 6100 were I able; but, literally reduced to nothing, and never having received one dime from Government or from any source for my service*, beyond transportation when on Government business, I can not afford it. Now, 1 am willing to preach through all these camps, and at all the hos pitals on the line of the New Orleans and Jackson, also the Vicksburg and Meridian, and the Mobile and Ohio from Mobile to Tupelo, without compensation, provided my railroad expenses are paid, and I can be furnished with tracts to distribute gratu itously. If this is asking too much, 1 will meet my own expenses, and preach and distribute the tracts gratuitously. Can 1 get the tracts on these terms? A deposi tory has been located at your office—what can you do for the army out here ? If no thing by way of supplying tracts without the money, can they be had with it ? By the w'ay, what does it mean that, after the churches and brethren have given the money to issue millions of them, they still! have to be bought at all? What can bej done? Write me about it. My experience proves that our soldiers and the people every where will listen to preaching now as they have never done be fore. Soldiers and people need encourage ment; the spirit of all has been most pain, fully depressed, and not a few despair. — The hopes inspired by the teachings of God’s Word and Providence buoy them up and inspire them to suffer and to sacri fice, to <Joand to dare. When our armies as well as our people come to look alone to God for salvation, we may safely conclude that He will say to the sword that scourgeth us, ‘Thou hast drank enough of the blood of this people.' I am spending a few days with our mu tual friend and fellow-worker, Dr. M. W. Philips, whose heart is in this as it has been in every good work. If tracts cannot be obtained from Atlanta, we must engage in publishing them in Mississippi. I shall wait to hear from you. Affectionately yours, J..R, Ghavks. (Address me at Magnolia, and letters will be forwarded.) Letter from A. B. Campbell, Chap lain Ninth Georgia Itcgiinent to hi* Parents. RICHMOND, V*., Jlly 8, 1862. My Dear Parents: —My emotions are too big for utterance, a* 1 attempt to give you an outline of my experience for the last few days. The arrival from Griffin of Mrs. 11., this morning, and the intelligence she brings from home, combined, w ith a re. collection of the wonderful events I have recently witnessed, to fill my soul w ith eon flicting emotions. I can hardly decide whether I am most transported with joy, or overwhelmed with sorrow. My main source of distress is my sympathy with my anxious, afflicted parents. If 1 cotM know you. were aware of my safely <<> V( ing, I should be much more uatquil in mind; but, knowing your apprebtunions, my sympathies are painfully txcited. 1 haps vou have felt like chiding me for net having sooner informed you of my escape from the dangers of the late battles. ut circumstances beyond my control have In vented me from writing you since the des perate engagement of Tuesday. written us on Monday, and here reft is to the conflict of McGruder’s Division. J. H. C ] From Monday motnir.g until Ihuisday noon, 1 did not sleep more than eight hours, being all the time either in motion with the army or on some recently fought field, trying to ameliorate the snffi rirgs of our own army as well as the mangled, dis heartened unfortunates, whom the beaten and retreating ent my left upon out hands. I spent Wednesday night in Jacksons army, and, as the ground was thoroughly wet, the air very chilly, and, as 1 bad neither blanket or overcoat with me, 1 sat up all night shivering over the fire, with the corpses of friends and foes strewn all around us. As the men Itad lost touch sleep, made heavy marches, and eaten but little, most of them fell down on the wet ground and slept, despite all their discom forts. Those of us who could not sleep, spent the hours in conversation, each nar rating his most important adventures, and all, with one consent, and without hesita. lion, attributing our personal deliverances and national triumphs, to the special inter position and favor of a most merciful 1 iov ideuce. No true soldier will deny the pro tection of God. Since entering the army, [more than twelve months ago,] I have known but two men who have avowed in fidel sentiments on this subject, both of whom, though in command, one of a com pany and the other of a regiment, betrayed, in the hour of danger, the most disgraceful cowardice, and are now ol jects of derision throughout the entire circle of their ac quaintance. This fact illustrates a great* 1 truth. * * * * * On Tuesday afternoon 1 remained with my regiment, went with them to the field of battle, and intended to take part in the conflict, but was dissuaded from so doing by a number of the officers and men, who begged that 1 would remain behind aud at tend on the wounded as they were brought from the field. The reasonableness ol the request, coupled with the fact that the bur geons would need my assistance, induced me to comply. I bade our men “ Do their duty,” commended them to God’s protec tion, and reluctantly turned back with a heavy heart, because they were going into danger without my accompanying them, from which some of them, poor fellows, would never return alive. I had hardly be gun to retrace my steps towards a neigh boring yard, which had been selected as a i suitable place for the wounded, when a dis charge of canister from the enemy swept past me, one of them passing w ithin a few inches of my head, and cutting off a color staff just behind me, the colors falling at iny feet. In a few momenta the battle had opened in good earnest. The bombs burst furi ously around the ) ard above mentioned, where we were attending on the wounded and dying. The litter-bearers and ambu lances were running to and fro, bringing in our bleeding, groaning comrades as fast as they could. But alas, not as fast as they fell ! Some believed the affair was badly managed, owing to the drunkenness of one or more in high authority. * * * * We were in doubt as to which side was victorious, until the revelations of the fol lowing morning showed how terribly the enemy had been beaten. They had a strong position, and the fighting was desperate on both sides. Our boys are not satisfied with the results of the engagement, be. cause the enemy was not compelled to leave all their artillery behind. During the fight they begged of their officers per mission to drive the Yankees away at the point of the bayonet. With a competent and courageous leader, such as our brigade commander, Col. G. T. Anderson, they would either have captured the entire force or driven them from the field in confusion. I hesitate not to say that our men are abso lutely invincible in the present cause. 1 must not close without a tribute to your friend, Col. G. T. Anderson. For several months past he has had command of our brigade, and, so far as 1 can learn, has won the esteem and confidence of both men and officers. He has led us into dan ger on several occasions, and is as calm and deliberate amidst a storm of grape and shell as when sitting in front of his tent, conversing with his staff. Ilis courage never betrays him into rashness or reckless ness, fur he never loses sight of the safety of his men and the interests of the cause, tor example, on Tuesday evening, before leading his command into action, he took a